It's kind of annoying that when you cut a piece from an entire song and drag that into sampler or simpler, the whole damn song goes with it. But the start/end points are edited to wherever you made your chops, but you can see the waveform for the entire song. lol. Am I doing something wrong?

I used GoldWave from 97 and then in later years switched to Sound Forge. I use a dedicated audio editting suite because A) it allows your sequencer greater liberty to concentrate on what it does best, and B) the LCD on the S2000 is the size of the side on a matchbox....

I vote Ableton as well. crop -> adjust -> filter -> resample. BAM! everything but MP3.
I hear a lot of familiar titles here, but no explanation of why they are better.
For the good of the order, what is it each can do that can't be done with Ableton, or can be done better/easier than with Ableton?
Great topic, BTW.